German Travel Association (DRV)

Germans are the world’s travel champions. They spend more on foreign travel than any other nation, namely almost 65bn euros per year. The tourism industry is thus an important economic factor in Germany providing about 2.9 million jobs.

The German Travel Association (DRV) is the leading lobby group of the German tourism sector. We primarily represent the interests of tour operators and travel agents, which generate annual sales of more than 20bn euros each. Behind the DRV is the considerable economic strength of our members, a membership that also includes numerous service providers and altogether accounts for more than 85 percent of these sales.